From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 19:40:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40E716A41C for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:40:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keith@barkinglizards.com) Received: from pluto.phpwebhosting.com (pluto.phpwebhosting.com [69.0.209.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B6BE43D53 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:40:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keith@barkinglizards.com) Received: (qmail 32037 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2005 19:40:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Rand) (209.117.233.18) by pluto.phpwebhosting.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2005 19:40:46 -0000 From: "Keith Bottner" To: Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:40:46 -0500 Organization: Barking Lizards Technologies MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcVtKyAeoSXOuFGwTyyPEq6nIJxjxA== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-Id: <20050609194047.9B6BE43D53@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: SATA RAID Controllers anyone have experience with any of these? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:40:48 -0000 If anyone has had any experience with any of the SATA RAID controllers below I would be interested. Not just whether you got them working but also if the performance is what you expected and how feature rich they are. Anybody out there dual booting FreeBSD with Windows or Linux and using any of these controllers? What RAID level are you using? Thanks for everyone's input as hardware feedback tends to be the hardest thing to find for FreeBSD, any hey if there is an SATA RAID controller that you absolutely swear by then by all means please let me know. Here's the immediate list I am considering but as I mentioned above please feel free to add your favorite. MegaRAID SATA-6 (0,1,5,10,50) AMCC 3Ware 8506-4LP (0,1,10,5,JBOD) RocketRAID 1640 (0,1,10,5,JBOD) - had downloadable drivers and utilities for FreeBSD on their site LSI Logic 150-6 RAID (0,1,5,10,50) Thanks in advance for your input, Keith